I broke Victoria 3: Sphere of Influence using POWER BLOCS

[@TheSocialStreamers]

CHAPS! You can really help me out if you want to get Victoria 3 or this DLC by using this link: paradoxinteractive.i38e.net/Laith Paradox are giving me a small cut for anyone who gets it from here! (same cost for you lmao)

[@Pilloot.]

For once, just this once, I think Paradox cooked

[@derekskelton4187]

They generally are. The meme rot has just warped reality for most of the fans

[@Cigmacica]

Collosus of the south was genually the best DLC they made in a while, low price forlots of content

[@mohamedjear8917]

You forgot machine age for Stellaris, and the last four dlc's for EU4, which were all COOKING !!!

[@LuckyAJC]

​@Cigmacica in an area most people don't play in, bad idea for the first content DLC

[@Burh643]

​@@LuckyAJC accually it was the second, First was france with VOTP

[@mistymoonshine897]

your green hair is a crime against humanity. keep at it.

[@regularname1825]

Sokoto hair arc

[@Commielover69]

Blud thinks he's the joker

[@Blood8563]

"I'm going to better my population well being, but just because I will benefit directly from it" .. AH....... spoke like a true politcian.

[@Gamereal6286]

This update looks so much fun! I guess its time for Economic Imperialism. Would be interesting to see you forming a new custom bloc with Japan, Dutch East Indies or Sokoto (which is my favorite nation to play). For example control the world by trade or something like that 😀 As always the quote: "We acquired cotton gin and we have become racist all in all a great day" - Laith, the Lathe

[@rolandfischer931]

Sokoto is fun af

[@tuxtitan780]

My first game is gonna be as the US taking over the Americas with a power bloc. Imma just incorporate everybody's market into mine and make a true American Empire

[@Keddeadkedemption]

Ah I see my fellow Sokoto enjoyers I click like. I'm especially excited by the new recognition mechanics

[@billisultan6224]

Sokoto was the first nation I played as in Vic 3. My opening move was to conquer lands till brits sided with one of them with ban slavery/open market CB.... and hope I could conquer my neighbors before brits got there. Don't know how it's like now tho.

[@abhinavnair7471]

This whole thing from June 1874 to 1875 could be considered WWI. We got Prussia + Austria + Russia + USA + UK vs. France + Ottomans + India + the rest of Germany, and Italy fighting both sides (edit: US is in the British Empire)

[@dylanwillmon5672]

The USA being in the British empire disgusts me.

[@Draugtaur]

i don't play vic3 so much but god i'm so happy when creators make vids about it. somehow it's the most enjoyable of their games to watch

[@captainamerica_ny9642]

This new dlc is gonna be so fire

[@NB-yu4lj]

🔥

[@ultim712]

We see you laith :pray:

[@CameraHam]

this is the ottoman play through i’ve been waiting for

[@Kasaaz]

This finally looks like a version of Victoria I want to play. If this was the 1.0 release, I'd have been on board. It's a pretty rough ask at $80 tho.

[@Empyric]

ive never been so invested in a laith playthrough this dlc gonna be fire

[@paperbackwriter19]

i only watch you for victoria 3 and imperatror rome so this video is a godsend from my lonely 2 weeks in drought

[@Lord_Lambert]

Laith: "I broke spheres of influence! Victoria 3: "We didnt need you to, we broke it all on our own!"

[@mohammadrezashoari4510]

17:24

[@Koagulat]

Much more interestiong video than previous versions of this game. Will watch more Vicky from Laith now.

[@shogged]

This dlc is the best paradox dlc in years. Completely changed the game, Victoria 2.0 basically

[@viniciusyugulis7278]

I love how Egypt has the exact same borders as 1444 Mamluks and even the Hejaz vassal

[@HeroNotFound05]

Finally, the Victorian era truely begins!

[@ruffusgoodman4137]

The only thing I feel it isn't in this new update is how soft power of certain great powers should open the door to alliances like it did to WW1. Other than that is really insightful and explains how certain conflicts are avoided through diplo poise and backdoor negotiations

[@behnamkeivan4633]

Laith please. Persia round 2. win the struggle

[@jimmyclyde]

@TheSocialStreamers Laith over the years I've watched your look evolve from a clean cut 1950s IBM employee to a 1960s free thinking hippie. I'm curious to see what the 70s and 80s will bring. My money is on a perm and a power mullet respectively.

[@rockerfarm6445]

the base is there, I''m excited about the magic modders will work

[@T4G95]

kinda glad this dlc was postponed... looks like they have done pretty good job of it. can't wait to be able to download it. shame they chose to release it on a Monday.

[@KatzeArtemis]

fuuuck ive never seen them explode like that. on a map like that it would indeed be fun to keep expanding eastwards

[@Blakesoccer98]

The dlc is great but the sound when you click on blocs has to be the best part

[@denofgames2072]

Laith with a different profile 😮😮😬

[@SleepyLazyPanda]

22:00 Tunisian Uprising in Morocco ?! RIOT

[@clony3094]

Wow now victoria 3 feels like a full game and not just a half finished game thats getting patched up with dlcs.

[@muratonuryilmaz5385]

Fun fact , Devleti Aliye means Th Great State. Devleti Aliye Osmaniye was the offical name of Ottoman Empire. Rough translation is Great State of Ottomans. Creative naming lol

[@aachor]

More Vic3 videos, please!

[@jordam200]

Out of curiousity, is the AI on aggressive in this? Even if it is it does feel way more aggressive and dynamic than in previous updates.

[@fikriahmad5745]

Pls play more of this run

[@Chriskr23]

Love your vids

[@paulplaiulla9033]

You didn't just Dunkerque on the french for fun, you did it for funds as well as fun.

[@Draugtaur]

27:37 nvidia should pay you for this integration lol

[@albobdmasta]

they really need to make piss yellow prussia into the game as an easter egg

[@rabidfurify]

Anarchist Prussia gets the classic piss colour.

[@user-Erimej]

Keep in mind that the Ottomans are NOT the only nation with a subject-orient power bloc. Great Britain & Russia also start with the very similar power blocs

[@fedorchekalkin4781]

There is an audio echo if you listen closely enough to laith speaking

[@aaturauhala3367]

When Greece --> Byzantium --> Roman Empire?

[@FunkyMonkeyI]

Sultan Laith the Magnificent reaffirming the Ottoman Empire

[@torrent6181]

We’re so back

[@ShadowEmpror88]

lets see these to the end

[@henryglennon3864]

Laith's sphere of influence is a metal apparatus he puts his head in to make his hair fluffy.

[@neopolitan4121]

Why does Laith look so much like King Akhmenrah from Night at the Museum

[@mehmetdurmaz2315]

Watched like a movie

[@franciscoteixeira9580]

22:03 it wasnt fabricated actually, the supposed "tunisian uprising " was in morocco

[@miljko00]

Game is coming out good, I guess navy rework is next.

[@zombiefirebot6066]

Prolly not

[@BrodyN-fu4dr]

tbh the dlc looks good, but why is Persia blue?

[@rolandfischer931]

Gotta change the color of Fars bruh

[@LaFonteCheVi]

Blue is a color historically associated with Persia

[@BrodyN-fu4dr]

@@LaFonteCheViI didn’t know that, I just thought it was a bit weird, as Iran is presented to have a tan colour most times. Thanks for telling me though.

[@clubardi]

@@LaFonteCheVi To add to this; It's where Persian Blue comes from which is based on the mineral Lapis Lazuli that is mined in Persia, the name itself comes from lāžward, the persian word for Gem

[@derekskelton4187]

We need a Tunis run Laith

[@Melon-zc8qu]

Laith what's going on with Canada at the end?

[@razorill]

Nice!!!!!! love the vids

[@normimemes7059]

The empire is prety chill maybe you want to join it or smth?

[@The_Mr_Zz]

8:36 ayooo bruh

[@Cigmacica]

Assuming the Ottomans weren’t already racist

[@ReaperCheaper]

Gonna become a victoria 3 content creator to get early access to dlcs

[@lucius8453]

Dear PDX, never ever please sponsor this human being, it ruins all the fun for my fellow AIs every single time

[@hythlodaeus1705]

Downloaded the DLC and immediately formed 19th century NATO as the US to spread some good ol democracy

[@BepeTheToad]

Say my friends went at me for getting the expansion pass but this is lit

[@deadmemelord7360]

What’s the name of the music that plays during the intro

[@oliverthomas-couch]

Teehee Laithe researched himself

[@cybertechmaser]

I can't believe it, Laith is going soft.

[@nikolasmaes99]

Surely, they sponsored you so you could have a title saying "I broke it"🤣

[@wokealarm6203]

he rebranded!

[@diegooliveira-vc6xi]

laith is so beautiful

[@aminrahimzadeh3106]

Win the great game with Persia

[@gabrielaldworth7476]

Day 3 of asking Laith to play Ante Bellum Normandy

[@BoarwithTea]

He has allready if i remeber correctly he commented on a tool tip being wrong as normandy failed in the timeline so just look it up

[@gabrielaldworth7476]

@@BoarwithTea he never finished it though

[@notinglonias]

You heard it here first folks, Laith supports economic imperialism

[@Lem0nsquid]

Well damn, I thought you took the sponsorship for money

[@lapisdragon1237]

Apologies for the late response, I've been going on a road trip to camp Buck Toms and haven't had the time to tell you to play a Fire Emblem Game on day 230

[@redtapecollection3363]

Apologies not accepted

[@rainezorker]

w vid and dlc

[@ErenGatherer]

Just the one thing to Vic3, FIX THE LAND/NAV combat!

[@henrywalters4251]

Yeah, not forking out 20 quid for this.

[@tessfairfield6435]

Part 2!

[@ryansacrey]

the dlcs cost more money than the game costs 😭😭😭

[@sasi5841]

*EIC always collapses if 3 conditions are true* 1. EIC is not controlled by player 2. EIC is independent 3. EIC is at peace

[@AA-em3yx]

How did he get the Local Governors to 6%? They are always at least 30% in my games

[@averagephonkenjoyer7021]

when does it come out?

[@Mohammedbouziani_29]

My friend you tell us in one of your videos your going to play morocco😢 plz play it with the new DLC for looking how to creat a BLOC ❤friend from morocco❤

[@ozgurozturk5043]

More Ottomans!

[@hicham2594]

The game looks great now, glad to see it. Too bad I had to wait 1 year and a half and spend more than 100€ though.

[@MrMkG2]

LETS GOOOOOO

[@DylanKnighting]

The Ottoman? They aren’t Tunis

[@CampbellMcKinnon-e7h]

Laith's going soft.

[@THX-1138]

Finally, victoria 2 base game features. Aside it seems like a proper direction for the game which felt utterly purposeless before.

[@beep1859]

Foolish paradox. Now that they've revealed a genuinely amazing feature like this, it's only a matter of time till it gets added in hoi4 or ck3 or vicky2 as mods so they won't need to play this game anymore

[@sasi5841]

Why do you play the game suboptimally. Your authority should always be between 0 and -100. Influence should always be close to 0, if your infamy is below 10. Also you need to make use of yoyo swings and consolidate smaller vassals into larger ones

[@Piratejoe44]

Day 271 of asking for an Oranje Free State Playthrough of Vicky 3.

[@Orky2511]

When I play the ottomans, Russia alway switching sides against me, dosn't matter what case. How to stop russia from doing that. It takes all the fun out of the game. I can't do shit.

[@johnconnor8206]

Day 33 of asking you to play Victoria 2 semi regulary.

[@arubahachigatsu3022]

It's SI-nai not SAY-nay damnit

[@paulodecarvalho8965]

If only we had a good combat system, then I’d buy it

[@mrmerc8583]

Day 2 of asking u to play porbandar

[@MaxTheLegend_YT]

Kkikikki

[@WillKazarian]

Your hair is a little long?

[@ivaylonikolov7138]

Why cannot i subjugate as a sovereign empire?

[@zombiefirebot6066]

There are requirements

[@ivaylonikolov7138]

@@zombiefirebot6066 ok i found it, i guess you can only do that while being a monarchy, i was playing as france, event made me a republic and i cannot subjugate.

[@zombiefirebot6066]

@@ivaylonikolov7138 👍

[@ivaylonikolov7138]

@@zombiefirebot6066 okay i guess im wrong, no idea how this works, the button is missing

[@zombiefirebot6066]

@@ivaylonikolov7138 it should be able to be used on any power bloc member as long as you are the leader, the bloc member isnt your subject and if you have enough cohesion

[@wafiiamirul4808]

Apa Khabar

[@ukaszpustelnik6850]

Splendid minor gameplay improvements at the price of a full game

[@franmax-lj3hh]

major*

[@jakepierner5783]

99% of the big improvements people are excited for in the 1.7 update are free. Also, apparently, altho you can't make the special power blocs without the dlc you can still use the power bloc mechanics of the nations that start with one

[@atari947]

Most of the important changes are free

[@user-Erimej]

Dude, why aren't You bothered with supporting Your buddy Constantine? If You SUCCESSFULLY support Constantine in the Algerian reunification, It almost guarantees to become your puppet

[@abdelkadercharcheri8292]

صحة ليث

[@Chriskr23]

First

[@magnus69]

This cut ain't it chief.